patti nykamp

I am having problems emailing a scanned project. I scan it (it is only a 4 x6 card) and it goes to PSE. Then I either save it as a jpeg or pdf, but either way, the person receiving it says it is too big for the page. How can a I change this so they can get it at a decent size. The origianl scan isn't even as large as it is coming out on screen. The same thing happens to me when sending scanned pictures or digital camera pictures. But for right now, I need to know how to do this scanning thing - it is for my husband's work and he wants it "yesterday"!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

beth haney

I'd guess it's showing up big because you're sending it out at a farily high resolution, which impacts how big it looks at the receiver's end. Unless you need a particularly high resolution copy to send someone, the easiest thing to do is prepare the image for e-mailing under the "Save for Web" portion of Elements. That does a good job of taking the guesswork out of converting and makes for tidy e-mails.

bert bigelow

An alternative to Beth's suggestion is to downsample the image to a reasonable size for Emailing. This is done using the Image>Size>Resize function. I would suggest an image size of 800x600 pixels for Emailing and monitor viewing. If the recipient intends to print it larger than 4x5, you will need a larger image, though, to get decent quality.
If you don't know how to resample the image, ask and thou shall receive detailed instructions, preferably from Beth. She does a much better job on detailed procedures than I do.
Bert

patti nykamp

I did save it to web, but when it was sent, you still had to scroll to get the whole picture. I even reduced the pixels like someone suggested. I want the whole card to show up without having to scroll it. Any more suggestions.

nancy s

Patti,

Test the resulting file by opening in your browser to doublecheck (though again, it depends on what res. you have your monitor set at)

patti nykamp

Thanks for the help, I went all the way down to the horizontal being 500 and still it makes you scroll, even though the picture is not the whole screen. Even by making the picture the whole screen by maximizing it, you still have to scroll. I cold probably go down to 100 and it would be tiny but you would still have to scroll - do You understand what I am saying. I feel so dumb.
Thanks

nancy s

Patti,

Are you using AOL?

I'm thinking that the available 'open space' on your screen might be small if so, because AOL takes up so much of it with all their 'stuff'.

I am having a hard time understanding why you have to scroll after resizing it downwards so far....

let us know on the AOL...

Nancy

nancy s

Patti,

Is the shape of your project very skinny and very long??

Nancy

nancy s

Patti,

What resolution are you scanning at?

carl sutherland

What is/are the recipients needs? What is the PPI and typical file size of the image after scanning ? When you say a "decent size", do you understand how that could be the size in pixels, the size of a printed image, or the file size, or combination?

If a 100 kb image of 800 pixels maximum dimension is satisfactory, then that can be done along the lines discussed. If the recipients needs are for a large file size and maximum pixels, you probably will need to pursue other choices if for no other reason you may exceed the size of file you can transfer over your mail server. More specific information on what you need and what exactly you are doing would be helpful. Do you understand why we are curious and do not understand why you would have to scroll on a pixel size you have? Do you understand why the resolution of the recipients monitor is important?

You may need to spend time with http://www.scantips.com . The relationship between pixel size, monitor, printed page, and file size is something I think all of us on this forum have to study at one time or the other.

I was more confused than any about this not that many months ago.

Carl